Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan wears hijab in solidarity with Somalis as feds probe multibillion-dollar fraud scandal

WASHINGTON — Minnesota’s lieutenant governor Peggy Flanagan donned a hijab to express solidarity with Somalis in a local TV appearance amid federal and congressional investigations into fraudsters in their refugee community who bilked taxpayers out of as much as $9 billion.

“I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part of the fabric of the state of Minnesota,” Flanagan said at Karmel Mall in Minneapolis alongside local officials in a video released by Somali TV of Minnesota on Thursday.

h/t Patti Jo

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Trump claims he’s the ‘president of peace’ — so why is he bombing so many overseas hotspots?

U.S. President Donald Trump earned plaudits from war-weary Americans when he promised during his first campaign to stop dragging the country into conflicts overseas he framed as a waste of money and personnel.

But his latest foray into hotspots on other continents, including launching strikes in Africa on Christmas Day, has some supporters questioning whether he really meant it when he said he’s “not going to start wars.”

In his second inaugural address in January, Trump said his presidency’s success would be measured “not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end — and perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.”


If he didn’t the CBC would be blaming Trump for humanitarian inaction.

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Muslim migration to Japan ‘doesn’t exist’

An article posted at a well known “conservative” website evoked an interesting comment.  The article was about Japanese prime minister Sanae Takaichi’s proposals to raise the bar to Japanese citizenship for foreigners.  Proposed requirements include increasing the length of residency in Japan and language proficiency.

With respect to language proficiency, the U.S. has had English language and civics test requirements for citizenship since the 1930s.  If the prime minister’s proposal is approved by the legislature (the Diet), then Japan will have finally caught up with the U.S. and other European countries.  Whether language tests and so on effectively screen out undesirable candidates is not known.  How have they worked out in the U.S.?

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How to destroy a country, part 3

PROMOTE Conformity in the Guise of Individualism. Has there ever been such conformity among the youth of a democratic nation before? Most young people are politically correct. They have been reared to believe in themselves as individuals, and to hold their own self-esteem (their very high and totally unearned self-esteem) as an intrinsic part of said individuality. But in reality they have been socially engineered into individuals who all believe the same thing.

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‘The year that the shoe dropped’: How the Canada-U.S. relationship changed in 2025

WASHINGTON – The people anxiously sipping hot chocolate in the Canadian Embassy in Washington on a cold night in January almost a year ago couldn’t have predicted the roller-coaster of trade provocations and bilateral blow-ups the next 12 months would bring.

In hindsight, that unusually chilly Washington evening foreshadowed how the Canada-U.S. relationship would soon freeze over.

Trump’s tariff threats and his talk of annexing Canada had already rattled Canadian politics over the preceding weeks. A rushed trip to Mar-a-Lago in early November 2024 failed to mend former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s already rocky relationship with the incoming U.S. president.

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Christmas in a migrant hotel – A shameless drug dealer. Illegal car wash and building site workers. And countless young men free to vanish into the underworld

Standing in spacious grounds among pine trees, the Brasserie restaurant at the Copthorne Hotel was once a much-loved venue where local families enjoyed a meal out at weekends.

The hotel website still chirps that the Brasserie, overlooking a Japanese-style lake and courtyard, offers ‘British cuisine’, including a traditional Sunday roast.

‘Your little ones will love the play area and children’s menu too,’ it burbles.

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The Gulag Beckons

The knife descends in the dark—not the theatrical blade of some cinematic villain but the cold, ideological steel wielded by the new totalitarians: leftist zealots, Islamo-fascists, trans activists, and the corporate-state hydra that shields them. In England, writing (and then deleting) a furious tweet after little girls were murdered earns a woman a prison sentence. In Canada, a pastor is dragged from his pulpit for reading Leviticus aloud. In France, a conservative philosopher is de-platformed before he can utter a syllable; in Poland, a journalist is fired for citing demographic data. The pattern is global, relentless, and accelerating.

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MCTEAGUE: Bah Humbug — Ottawa’s green obsession and the cost of Christmas feasting

The holidays are here again, a time of joy and festivity, of peace on earth and good will towards men.

But you’ll be forgiven if you’re not feeling as festive as in years past. After all, it’s not easy to be merry when you’re struggling to heat your home, pay your hydro bill, gas up your car, or put food on the table, let alone put presents under the tree.

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After U.S. outreach, Alberta separatists will head to Latin America to rustle up support for their cause

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Could they really break up Canada?

In recent months — and as recently as last week — separatists have been wooing the Trump administration for support for an independent Alberta. They plan to continue those discussions with the U.S. State Department, and one Alberta Republican even plans to take the campaign further south, to Latin America, to rustle up support for the cause. The idea is to have friends with open chequebooks if (they say “when”) their efforts lead to a “Yes” vote.

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Feminism, Anti-racism, and the Unraveling of Western Civilization

Pantone Cloud Dancer – Racist White

Earlier this month, Compact Magazine published “The Lost Generation,” written by Jacob Savage, a man who spent fifteen years trying to build a career in screenwriting and finally gave up. He claims he was the victim of active discrimination as a white male, and backs it up with facts:

“In 2011, the year I moved to Los Angeles, white men were 48 percent of lower-level TV writers; by 2024, they accounted for just 11.9 percent… White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023… In 2024, The Atlantic announced that three-quarters of editorial hires in the past year had been women and 69 percent people of color… In 2018, The New York Times replaced its summer internship with a year-long fellowship. Just 10 percent of the 220 fellows have been white men… Since 2018, only 14.6 percent of tenure-track assistant professors hired at Yale have been white American men. In the humanities, that number was just six out of 76 (7.9 percent)… Today, just one in ten millennial programmers at Sundance is a straight white man…”

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Will 2025 be remembered as the year Canadians re-embraced nationalism?

Nationalism has many different forms, from benign feelings of pride to aggressive chauvinism. Some speak idealistically of civic nationalism, quizzically of economic nationalism, or suspiciously of ethnic nationalism. And in Canada, there is Quebec nationalism and the search for greater autonomy by a myriad of Indigenous nations. All of these made their mark in the past year, and will continue to shape events in 2026.


A cheesy political slogan that Liberal Party media used to engineer the zombie half life of the worst government in Canadian history is what passes for nationalism in today’s balkanized Canada.

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North American free trade is dead. The sooner Canada accepts that, the better

The era of North American free trade is over.

That point was hammered home by the report on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement sent to Congress last week by the U.S. Trade Representative, a prelude to the formal review of the deal set to start in July, but which could get underway earlier.

While it can be read several ways, the report, and USTR Jamieson Greer’s oral comments, reveal that even if the USMCA continues to tick over during the 2026 review, there will be tough demands by the Trump team for concessions from Canada and Mexico, backstopped by the threat of U.S. withdrawal from the agreement on six months notice.

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